The Catholic Church teaches that a Christian’s soul must burn in purgatory after death until all of their sins have been purged. To speed up the purging process, money may be paid to a priest so he can pray and have special masses for an earlier release.

This heresy began creeping into the Roman Church during the reign of Pope Gregory around the end of the sixth century, and it has no scriptural support. In fact, Jesus warned us about this pagan practice in Matthew 23:14 when He spoke of those who devoured widows houses and made long prayers for a pretence. Psalm 49:6-7 tells us that a person couldn’t redeem a loved one, even if such a place did exist: “They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:”

Peter addresses this issue in Acts 8:20 when he says, “Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.” God’s word is clearly against the doctrine of purgatory…………. – http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=35789

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Quote by Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda in Hitler’s Third Reich.

The POPE is infallible according to Catholic Doctrine. This is about as absurd as former Bible belt pastor Stephen Mansfield stating OBAMA is a Christian! Amazingly even our conservative talk radio 99.7 in middle Tennessee where Stephen Mansfield lives had Stephen on the show as an expert, here was the show title for Stephen that morning:

Is there hypocrisy in Christian right? November 27, 2012 – Former pastor, now author Stephen Mansfield discusses the missing role of the Christian right in politics.

Has anyone ever heard of the “Fox guarding the hen house”. Stephen was the author of “The Faith of Barack Obama”, a book by the way that painted Obama as a good guy, one to vote for, then he is an EXPERT on HYPOCRISY???????

What we have is a the rise of the false church (the Pope, guys like Mansfield, and other feel good ministers like Osteen etc.) and also a lack of discernment in some of our good churches. Christians need to rise up and point out these false teachers. The next thing is these exact people will put their energy into ‘hate speech laws’. Mark my words, they are already working on it right now. They hate the idea of anyone, especially just an ordinary joe pointing out their lies.